translated from Spanish: In 1975, the UN recognizes March 8 as international women’s day: what made by female empowerment?

was in 1975 and the Organization of the United Nations (UN), for the first time since its creation in 1945, recognized on March 8 as such and invited the countries composing it to celebrate a “day of the United Nations for the rights of women and the” international peace”. Apart from this Act which marked unprecedented international distinction, from Filo.News we wonder what did the UN for the empowerment of women. Institutes, funds, divisions and offices a year after this recognition, the UN did not stay idly and inaugurated the International Institute of research and training for the advancement of women (INSTRAW, for its acronym in English), in addition to to open a United Nations Development Fund for women (UNIFEM). Already in 1946 had created a Division for the advancement of women (DAW) and added an Office of the Special Adviser on gender (OSAGI) in 1997.

Image of the second World Conference on women in Copenhagen, 1980 on the other hand, on December 18, 1979 was signed the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of violence against women (CEDAW), considered one of the great progress made by the UN in gender. In 1995, the Declaration and the Beijing Platform for action would be considered “the most progressive plan that has ever existed to promote the rights of women”. However, in 2010 it took the big leap and created the UN entity for gender equality and the empowerment of women, known as UN women, which absorbed the four organs mentioned above. What do they mean?

“Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, current Executive Director of UN women documents, statements, setting objectives and tasks: what do they mean?” The United Nations is an international organization of great importance, is very good which promote, reports, recommendations, when the treaties are signed,”recognizes lawyer Noelia Di Sanzo, although it warns that much”is at the head of countries’.” “Many times is it difficult to UN achieve compliance with be given to the commitments assumed in developing countries development such as that found in Latin America, Asia and Africa because they don’t have the compilation of that information”, says the lawyer.
“What really helps women empower themselves are women’s organizations” and exemplifies: “the first thing that comes to mind is what declared the UN after August 8: that kind of disappointment regarding that the Argentina lost a unique opportunity of” legalize women’s right on the autonomy of our bodies. UN is tired of explaining that it is can not equate the rights of a woman to the rights of a fetus”.” There are things that have practical applications: there are a lot of international agencies involved in implementing, but being an organization of Nations depends very much on the will of each nation. I think that apart from States and organizations, which really helps women empower themselves are women’s organizations, are in the field that they are”concluded Di Sanzo.

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